This document lists core standards and occupational knowledge and skills that have been identified/validated by industry as necessary to all Georgia students in secondary-level health care occupations programs. First, foundation skills are grouped as follows: basic skills (reading, writing, arithmetic/mathematics, listening, speaking); thinking skills (decision making, problem solving, seeing things in the mind's eye, knowing how to learn, reasoning); and personal qualities (self-management, integrity, honesty). The second section, which lists competencies specific to the health occupations cluster, is organized by the following categories/subcategories: resources (time, money, materials and facilities, human resources); interpersonal (participating as a team member, teaching others new skills, serving clients and customers, exercising leadership, negotiating, working with diversity); information (acquiring, evaluating, organizing, and maintaining information and using computers to process information); systems (understanding systems, monitoring and correcting performance, improving amd designing systems); and technology (selecting and applying technology, maintaining and troubleshooting equipment). Each section includes the following: skill statement(s); performance standard(s); list of occupational knowledge and skills; and code number under which the knowledge/skill is listed in Georgia's career cluster standards. (MN)